Kick off the year Running the Bulls with a mellow OR challenging ride through the Evergreen hills!

You've always wanted to run!

We will start together at Eastridge Mall (Eastridge Center) then split horns at Ruby & Quimby, with the “mellow” flatter steer chase heading North and West. The “challenging” steeper bull run will roll East and South. Both rides will meet up again on Yerba Buena road near Hwy 101 to ride to downtown San Jose. We’ll try to keep the mellow steer ride regroups short so we can coordinate both routes to meet at a similar time on Yerba Buena. If you’d like to go back to Eastridge after Regroup #3, simply take a right on Tully Rd.

Note: The Mellow ride at 220ft elevation overall is slightly more than average…but the 486 ft for the “Challenging” ride is great… but only if you know how to ride! Be sure to let faster riders pass on the left *inside the rightmost lane* and let slower riders merge right.

For Pre-Rides please look at “more” down below.

Note that the VTA Alum Rock station is only about 2.75 miles away and the Curtner station is about 4miles away. (DT SJ is 5.65 mi away – you can park there and join a Pre-Ride)

As always we need Volunteers at key intersections and to ensure riders go deep in to the regroups!

Proposed Pre-Rides

Bike Partiers live all over town, and many people like to ride together to the ride – especially since any experienced Bike Partier knows parking and transit near our ride starts are usually no fun. These “pre-rides” are a nice way to meet with others on the way to the ride.

Wow I wasn’t planning on doing this months ride cause of the weather but looks like it’s gonna work out and I live about 5 minutes away from eastridge…thanks for this eastside/evergreen ride!should be fun!

@rapid robert – ideally more than half will leave downtown no later than 6:45 so they can experience all the bike party before the start.

whoever can lead the pre-rides, please let us know and we’ll put 2 leaders names up on the list.

we’d love to have volunteers get together at about 7:45pm to discuss our needs.

we need people to “push” and “pull” at the start and regroups and to coordinate (if possible) the timing of the two legs of the middle of the route so that the “mellow steer ride” can get there to Yerba Buena & Silver Creek a bit BEFORE the “bull riders”

thanks again for all the volunteers who helped out next month. lets get even more and make this ride the best one yet…

I’ll be a bit rushed that evening, so I’m planning on getting to downtown right around 7:10pm-7:15pm and leaving shortly thereafter. We should be able to make it to Eastridge on-time as long as we don’t dilly-dally too much. @RapidRobert, hope to see you there.

I don’t think I can make it from work and be there for a 6:45 departure from downtown. I’ll go past the downtown pre-ride start location, and if anyone’s there I’ll stop. But I’ll want to leave from there by 7:15 at the latest

I’ll be at the Oakridge Oaks parking area at 6:20 for the Pre-ride and look forward to seeing those of us cylists from the South Cambrian, Robertsville and Almaden neighborhoods. Look for the well lit Townie guy.

For all Willow Glen, Cambrian, Robertsville, or Almaden Bike Partiers, I will be looking to hook up with you all at the Oakridge Mall on the Blossom Hill Road side in the parking lot where the Oak trees are. There are 2 big oaks but only one of them is in a parking area. You will find me on the glowing Townie at 6:20 and I hope to see your smiling faces and bikes all lit up!
Got horns?

The TxT also has the Hilly Route going left at Norwood and right at Ruby instead of staying with the Mellow Route to Quimby. Don’t know the official position on that one. Maybe a great couple of intersections for signage.

@bryan – start the ride 10 miles in? lol that’s one way to do it. very hard to estimate when that would be… might get to the 1st regroup at 8:30-8:45 or so…. and that 2nd regroup at King & Tully 9:20-9:30 (or much later?!?)

we’re going to try to keep the “mellow” regroups shorter (the “steeper” regroups can be longer!) and make regroup #3 the longest.

@rapid robert, johnm — the map was updated (wed/thurs?) … there is no simberton anymore… we’re taking Remington all the way to Quimby so that we can split into the “mellow” and “steep” at Evergreen Valley HS (at Quimby and Ruby).

So someone with a bullhorn at the Evergreen Valley High School won’t be as annoying as at Simberton and Ruby.

As long as people get the gist of it, many follow others and don’t look at the map or read em so we’ll see what happens.

The San Jose bike party rode by my house on Clayton rd . I never new about this , everyone was having soo much fun.So I starting passing out glow sticks to the riders passing my house, I will either be riding in the next one or be passing out more glow sticks to the riders. I Think the san jose bike party is a really cool thing!!!!!

That was a okay ride i liked it but the guy with the motor scooter has to go thats cheating man even though you think its a bike cause of the pedals it still has a motor i saw at least 3 people with them and they were all big people riding them if you cant ride a bike and have to cheat with a scooter go home you cheap-o’s and get a bike. I hated that guy with the green one with the leather jacket cause i was riding next to him the whole time he was going as fast as i was and riding next to me with that noisy engine was annoying and heard at least 6 groups of people saying it was cheating and it was. So next time leave your scooters at home this is bike party no engines aloud. [editor’s joke: apparently the fumes got to this poster’s head…all the punctuation fell out!]

took a friend for his first time at BP. he loved it and cant wait for the next one.

the meetups seemed better then last one i went to, didnt seem that people waited in the cold, not riding, as long as the other.

one confusing part was the hill section. heard a guy say something on a PA, but only heard “all the way to the top.” once we got to the top we had no idea where to go. so we took some back neighborhood roads and finally ran into the “easy route” again.

noticed less people paying attention to red lights than usual, which isnt a good thing. but overall a very successful bike party

Bike party’s all about cooperation and consideration. Little things, like letting cars pass or turn and using punctuation when commenting here, show respect for those seeing or reading. I don’t mean to suggest being the “proper gentleman” writing the Queen’s English, but making a little effort makes a difference. Otherwise, it’s just a big finger to the audience … us. End of Rant.

Bike party certainly was a good time this month. Great tunes, the mellow routs felt like it was mostly downhill to me, the weather was excellent, and the organized exit from the last regrouping spot really helped keep the group together. Thanks Scott!

Shouldn’t have even left a comment if people are going to make a fuss over small little periods or commas really come on now. Just trying to point out something that made others not to happy not to get made fun of for how I didn’t put punctuation in my comment geez guys.